Por Alejandra García y Bill Hackwell el 24 de julio de 2022
2008, la caravana en la frontera mexicana. foto: Bill Hackwell
Por Trigésima segunda ocasión en 30 años, una caravana de Pastores por la Paz arribó a Cuba con cerca de 100 personas, muchos de ellos jóvenes que están conociendo la realidad de Cuba por primera vez; viéndola por sí mismos en lugar de a través del filtro de mentiras y odio que predomina en los principales medios de comunicación estadounidenses. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on July 24, 2022
2008, the caravan at the Mexican border. photo: Bill Hackwell
For the 32nd time in 30 years a Pastors for Peace caravan is in Cuba bringing close to 100 people including many young people who are experiencing the reality of Cuba for the first time; seeing for themselves instead of through the filter of lies and hate so prevalent in the mainstream media of the US. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 14, 2022
The eyes of the world are beginning to turn to Brazil. This October, the Brazilian people will go to the polls hoping to change the country’s political course and overthrow the unpopular Jair Bolsonaro. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 10, 2022
Lesly Ramirez
El Salvador has committed a great injustice, on an almost unthinkable level. A 21-year-old girl was sentenced to 50 years in prison for “aggravated homicide” due to miscarriage. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia, on July 5, 2022, from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
A recent report from Miami is assuring that there will be rebellion in Cuba, sooner or later. “The possibility of one or several rebellions of considerable magnitude is extremely high in the short term,” the Cuban Observatory of Conflicts (OCC, in Spanish) stated in a report published Tuesday. But they seem to be talking about a different country. Cuba is at peace. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 30, 2022 from Havana
Cuban President Diaz Canel visits power plant in Mayabeque province
Since early 2021, Cuba has been suffering more frequent blackouts amid government efforts to repair the country’s thermoelectric power plants. Power cuts typically last three, four, and up to eight hours and the worst may not be over as we are entering the hottest time of the year when energy demands are at their highest. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 26, 2022 from Havana
1994, women have led the fight for safe and legal abortions in the US and they won’t stop now. photo: Bill Hackwell
Scandal, pain, and anger. Women’s rights advocates in the United States cannot believe what has just happened. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the historic decision that legalized abortion in the United States. According to the ruling, there is no longer a constitutional right to abortion, guaranteed by the case known as Roe v. Wade. The news had been leaked over a month ago but now the cold cruel reality has hit home. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Gustavo A Maranges on June 21, 2022
We Won!
This Sunday, Colombia made history. For the first time, a leftist candidate will become president of this Latin America nation that yearns for a definitive regime change. Gustavo Petro, the former rebel fighter who has promised a profound social and economic reform in that country, is the Colombian people’s best option at this point in time to get them out of the poverty and violence that has shaken them for decades. (more…)